Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0102] Back

Gen. Argiope Audouin, 1826 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01443 ]
N.B.: the original spelling Argyope suppressed by ICZN, 1975: Opinion 1038; considered a senior synonym of Miranda C. L. Koch, 1835: 128 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05539] (type M. transalpina C. L. Koch, 1835 = Argiope bruennichi (Scopoli, 1772)) by Thorell, 1873: 518; considered a senior synonym of Austrargiope Kishida, 1936a: 17 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05231] (type Argiope plana L. Koch, 1867 = A. trifasciata (Forsskål, 1775)), Chaetargiope Kishida, 1936a: 20 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05232] (type Argiope picta L. Koch, 1871), Coganargiope Kishida, 1936a: 18 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05233] (type Argiope amoena L. Koch, 1878) and Heterargiope Kishida, 1936a: 19 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05234] (type Argiope maja Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 = Trichonephila clavata (L. Koch, 1878)) by Yaginuma, 1959c: 21 and of Brachygea Caporiacco, 1947a: 24 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05235] (type B. platycephala Caporiacco, 1947 = A. trifasciata (Forsskål, 1775)) by Levi, 1983: 258; Heterargiope Kishida, 1936a: 19 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05234] (type Argiope maja Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) instead synonymized with Nephila Leach, 1815 by Jäger, 2012c: 315 (by transfer of the type species) after Levi, 1983: 262), now in Trichonephila Dahl, 1911.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2024-12-22
Described in
Audouin, 1826: 121 (type Aranea sericea Olivier, 1789; gender feminine; syn. of Argiope lobata (Pallas, 1772))
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Species counts
Counts Status
89accepted
86synonym
1nomen nudum
4nomen dubium
Reference

Audouin, V. (1826). Explication sommaire des planches d'arachnides de l'Égypte et de la Syrie. In: Savigny, M. J. C. L. de: "Description de l'Égypte, ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée franҫaise, publié par les ordres de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand.". Histoire Naturelle 1(4): 1-339 (arachnids, pp. 99-186, pl. 1-7). [for year of publication and authorship see Sherbourn, 1897, Tollitt, 1986 and ICZN, 1987b; a second edition was publ. in 1829, with different pagination: arachnids, pp. 291-430] download pdf

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